Owner Of Gonabadi Friary Ceremonies in “Soghad”, part of Abadeh city in Fars Province was arrested by security forces and plain clothes.

According to Majzooban reporter, this morning, on Sunday 28 Khordad 91 (Jun 17 , 2012) security guards and plain clothes raided the home of Gonabadi dervish, Mr. Ali Shafiee, who is allowed to hold religious ceremonies in his house in Soghad and arrested him without judicial warrant and transferred him to an unknown place.

During the last three months of this year (1391), pressure on members of Nematollahi Gonabadi order has continued with the arrest of more than ten Gonabadi dervishes and with the trial over a hundred of them in the courts of Tehran, Boroujerd, Kavar and Shiraz cities.

Meanwhile, seven Gonabadi dervishes who are all dervishes’s lawyers and administrators of Majzooban Noor Website (Nematollahi Soltan Ali Shahi Gonabadi’s Order News Site) are being held in the security sections of Evin prison in Tehran and also five Gonabadi dervish have been imprisoned in Shiraz Adel Abad prison and unfortunately there is no information about status of theses dervishes’s cases yet.